The VPR Poem of the Week is Sherod Santos’s “A Writer’s Life,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2003-2004 issue (Volume V, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review. Santos will be presenting his poetry this Thursday, September 30 at 6:30 p.m., in the Christ College Refectory of Mueller Hall at Valparaiso University. This event is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow the reading.
Sherod Santos is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems. A previous collection of poems, The Pilot Star Elegies, was a finalist for both the National Book Award and The New Yorker Book Award. His other honors include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the B.F. Connors Long Poem Prize from Paris Review, and the Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poetry Prize. His book of essays on poetry and poetics, A Poetry of Two Minds, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. A book of translations, Greek Lyric Poetry, won the Umhoefer Prize.
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